If your computer starts running sluggishly, stopping programs from running in the background may free up the resources to get your computer running at normal speed.

If a program is running in the background on your Windows 11/10 PC & you can see it on Taskbar or Task Manager but is not visible on your desktop screen, see this post.

Find out what Apps & Programs have been running on your Windows PC in the past using ExecutedProgramsList. Details include Used date, Modify date, etc.

Is your computer too slow? Sometimes it seems like they cannot work fast enough — but that doesn’t mean you need to get a new one.

You can easily stop programs from running at startup on your Mac computer using your System Preferences.

Here's how to open programs on your computer quicker—and make them respond better.

Running two anti-virus programs at once will create problems for your computer.

You don’t want to run two anti-virus programs on the same computer. At the same time, I’ve never run into problems running an anti-virus program and an anti-malware program on the same computer.